“In the City Garden” is a popular song by composer Matthew Blanter to verses by Alexei Fatyanov , created in 1947. Also found are the names “In the city garden plays” [1] and “In the city garden plays a brass band”. In the late 1940s, the song was known under the names “Meeting” [2] and “You are my life!” [3] .
| song | |
| In the city garden | |
|---|---|
| Date of issue | 1947 |
| Genre | song |
| Song language | Russian |
| The author of words | Alexey Fatyanov |
| Composer | Matvey Blanter |
Content
History
Plays in the city garden
Brass band.
On the bench where you sit
No free places.
Because lindens smell
And the river glistens
To me from your beautiful eyes
The gaze cannot be averted.
Nearly half the world I passed -
I haven’t met anyone like you
And I didn’t think of thinking,
What will I meet you.
The song "In the City Garden" was written by composer Matthew Blanter to the words of the poet Alexei Fatyanov in 1947 [1] . According to Blanter, the song was created very quickly. On one of the autumn days of 1947, Fatyanov visited him, who showed him a poem that began with the words “A brass band plays in the city garden”. They began to work, and “by lunchtime” their first song, “In the City Garden”, was ready. According to Blanter, it was easy to collaborate with Fatyanov - the poet "worked hard, he was all looking for any word that was needed, the only one." Many years after the creation of the song, in 1975, the composer said: “This song about the meeting of a young man with a girl in the city garden is still sweet to me. In my concerts of authorship, to my pleasure, it still sounds ” [4] [5] .
One of the first performers of the song “In the City Garden” was the singers Georgy Vinogradov [6] , Vladimir Nechaev [7] , Yuri Khochinsky [2] and Leonid Kostritsa [3] . In 1948, the lyrics along with notes were included in the compilation of Alexei Fatyanov from the series “Songs of Soviet Poets”, released by the State Music Publishing House (Muzgiz) [4] .
Analysis and reviews
Researcher of creativity FatyanovaTatyana Malysheva noted that the song “In the city garden” written in the form of a waltz is “tenderness itself”, it is not outdated, “excites lovers”, “simple words quickly reach her heart, touch her soul, awaken her imagination”. The song, in the creation of which Fatyanov “followed the best classical examples”, tells about what is dear to everyone - “a city park in his native land, a favorite, meetings with which are always welcome and joyful” [4] .
Philologist Anatoly Kulagin believed that the plot of the song “In the City Garden” (in particular, the words “on the bench where you sit, there are no empty seats”) could influence Bulat Okudzhava when creating his poem “On Tversky Boulevard” (1956), in which there were the following words: "... but there wasn’t enough space / on that green bench, / on the overpopulated, / as if a communal apartment." According to Kulagin, in contrast to the situation described in the song “In the City Garden,” the poetic dialectic of the Okudzhava image could not allow there to be no empty seats - “there is, it is obligatory to eat, just not to understand everything too literally,” Okudzhava’s “ the bench is at the same time concrete, recognizable (the one on Tverskoy), and conditional, for it contains each and every one ” [8] .
The writer Tatyana Dashkevich , author of the biography Fatyanova, wrote that the music in the song “In the City Garden” resembled “nostalgic chords of the pre-war waltz”. According to her, the lines and measures of the song - “I almost went halfway around the world - I haven’t met someone like you” - were fascinating, they “circled pairs, heads, leaves on the autumn sidewalks” [5] .
Artists
Throughout its history, the song “In the City Garden” was included in the repertoire of many famous singers and singers, such as Georgy Vinogradov [6] , Vladimir Nechaev [7] , Yuri Khochinsky [2] , Leonid Kostritsa [3] , Gennady Belov , Alexey Pokrovsky , Vladimir Troshin [9] , Lyudmila Gurchenko , Joseph Kobzon , Alibek Dnishev , Oleg Pogudin , Valeria and others.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 T.N. Kareva. Blanter Matvey Isaakovich // Russian Pop, XX century. Encyclopedia / E. D. Uvarova . - M .: OLMA Media Group , 2004 .-- S. 78-79. - 861 s. - ISBN 978-5224044627 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 In the city garden, song (performer Yu. A. Khochinsky , 1947) (HTML). www.russian-records.com. Date of treatment January 3, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 3 In the city garden, song (performer L.G. Kostritsa , 1948) (HTML). www.russian-records.com. Date of treatment January 3, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 3 T.P. Malysheva. Alexey Fatyanov. - M .: Sovremennik , 1984. - S. 104-106. - 184 p. - (Literary portraits).
- ↑ 1 2 T.N. Dashkevich . Fatyanov. - M .: Young Guard , 2004 .-- S. 143. - 326 p. - (The life of wonderful people). - ISBN 5-235-02658-6 .
- ↑ 1 2 V. D. Safoshkin. When the spring comes I don’t know ... Life and songs of Alexei Fatyanov. - M .: Eksmo , 2005 .-- S. 154. - 382 p. - ISBN 9785699120338 .
- ↑ 1 2 Music. Song. Record. Collection of Philophonist Valery Franchenko / V.K. Solonenko . - M .: Silver threads, 2006 .-- S. 78 .-- 238 p. - ISBN 5-89163-044-3 .
- ↑ A.V. Kulagin . Okudzhava and others: from studies and reviews of 2002-2007 .. - M .: Bulat, 2008. - P. 98-99. - 248 p. - ISBN 978-5-91457-002-3 .
- ↑ Calendar. Chronicle of the cultural life of Russia. - M .: RIA Novosti , 2001 .-- S. 54.
Links
- Poems and sheet music on a-pesni.org
- The song "In the City Garden" performed by Georgy Vinogradov , Vladimir Nechaev , Gennady Belov , Alexei Pokrovsky (fragment of the film-concert " Beloved Women "), Vladimir Troshin , Lyudmila Gurchenko , Joseph Kobzon , Alibek Dnieshev , Oleg Pogudin and Valeria , as well as waltz "In the City Garden" performed by the State Brass Band of Russia .